Categoría: Art
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Chanel Cruise 17/18
Karl Lagerfeld is a modern poet. He works without words but he creates eloquence worlds designing something new and something different everytime and finding balance between the dreamy illusion and the pleasure of splendid. His last collection to Chanel, The Modernity of Antiquity, staged at The Grand Palais of Paris –transformed into a set of ancient…
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Pure minimalism: Doug Wheeler.
In 1992, when the Guggenheim bought Doug Wheeler’s PSAD Synthetic Desert III, the piece hadn’t been realized. The idea behind this project, conceived by Wheeler 50 years ago, was to mimic the experience of standing in the deserts of Northern Arizona and replicate the silence in nature in the center of the Guggenheim. This challenge was technically difficult, but…
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Mimi Jung and Her Woven Walls
I’m sure you want to know more about Mimi Jung, so you can visit her website and Instagram. Si quieres ver más obras de Mimi Jung, puedes visitar su web e Instagram.
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Matt Shlian
I don’t remember where I discovered the Matt Shlian’s artwork but I’ve always admired him. He’s like a paper engineer and, in fact, he collaborates with scientists researching the connections between paper folding and folding at microscopic and nanoscopic scales. His sculptures or tridimensional pieces, that he designs just with paper, are small architectures and structures full of…
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Entrevista a Paloma Lanna: «Mi gran fuente de inspiración es el arte, en cualquiera de sus expresiones»
La diseñadora Paloma Lanna Hoy damos la bienvenida en el blog a Paloma Lanna y conversamos con ella sobre los dos proyectos en los que está involucrada – Nice Things y Paloma Wool–, la producción responsable en moda, el peso de la fotografía y, como no, sus fuentes de inspiración. Os recomendamos visitar también su Instagram…
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Yasha Butler
Yasha Butler is a ceramic artist currently based in Providence and Istanbul. Her pieces are so soft and flawless that is imposible not to feel calm and beauty. She says it is a delicate balance of opposites – the intentional and the random, the rough and the smooth, the linear and the organic and…
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Pigment Store in Tokyo
Hundreds of pigments fill the wood ceilings of the new store Pigment that just opened in Tokyo. A big space where we can find 4200 colors of pigments, more than 200 antique ink sticks, 50 kinds of animal glues and papers. The store will also provide workshops by art professors and manufacturers of the supplies. The impressive…
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Watercolor Floral by Luli Sanchez
Once again I want to share with you the inspiring and delicate artwork of Luli Sanchez. In this case, the serie tittled Watercolor Floral with organic, spontaneous and natural shapes. More about her work published in Lisbon, Paris, Madrid: Animals Skins and Luli Sanchez. Una vez más quiero compartir con vosotros el inspirador y delicado…
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Coco Chanel. A Biography.
If you are interested in the woman behind the designer that created the Little Black Dress, parfum Chanel nº5 or extolled the beauty of camellias, you must read this biography by Axel Madsen. The book narrates her career –why Coco is Chanel?–, but also a rich period of History. Very interesting. Si estáis interesados en…
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Louis Vuitton Invitation Origami
Happycentro is a Design Studio from Verona that creates this original piece: an invitation card for Louis Vuitton store opening in Osaka. Happtcentro’s designers explain the proyect in this way: «The starting idea was a paper object designed by us; its shape, expression of perpetual precision and pureness of the origami world, we wanted to…
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Red is the color of courage
Why don’t we add a touch of bright red to this new year? Let’s ignore the Pantone’s advice that chooses Marsala color as the new trend of 2015. After all, red is the color of courage, joy and power. ¿Por qué no añadimos un toque de rojo brillante a este nuevo año? Vamos a…
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Nuria Blanco: ‘Me encanta cualquier esquina de Le Marais’
Nuria Blanco y su proyecto Vajillas by Nuria Blanco es un claro ejemplo de cómo es la artesanía hoy: un trabajo manual que revive las técnicas clásicas para crear piezas originales al margen de la gran industria. Despedimos 2014 entrevistando a una de las representantes de esta nueva artesanía por su trabajo delicado y detallista…
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Rizzoli’s Books
I’m captivated by New Yorker bookstore Rizzoli. Its online catalog is inmense, with a great offer of marvellous books. So, I’ve chosen for you four, even though it’s seems impossible to select among so many treasures. — Estoy cautivada por la librería neoyorkina Rizzoli. Su catálogo online es inmenso, con una oferta enorme de libros…
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